Description: A study of film style as a key element in film production, addressing a range of film production styles across historical and national contexts: 'Mildred Pierce', 'White Christmas', the films of Maya Deren, Pasolini, Antonioni, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and contemporary Asian filmmakers including Jia Zhangke and Apitchatopong Weeresethakul.
Brief description: John David Rhodes is Lecturer in Film at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is author of the BFI Film Classic on Meshes of Afternoon (2011), Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (2007), and 'Spectactle of Property: The House in American Film' (2017) and has co-edited Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image (2011), Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI Publishing, 2011), and On Michael Haneke (2010).